Let’s be absolutely clear here: all these terms are pretty stupid. I mean, generally, I think the very idea of Supercars are sort of stupid as it is, massively expensive, absurdly capable and fast vehicles that are doomed to spend most their lives immobile in some jackass’ climate-controlled car-spa. Still, they’re here, they can be fun, and companies that build them like to call them “hypercars” now. It’s time to set some standards.

It seems that there’s three main terms currently in use for these sorts of cars: supercar, hypercar, and, rarely, megacar. Currently, the decision about how to use these terms has been vague and usually the choice of the manufacturer, who’ll just pick whichever one sounds the best to them. Of course, they are not to be trusted.

We need some hard, fast metrics for each category, and we need to expand the roster of terms for future development. As far as what these metrics should be, the ones that seem to make the most sense are power, price, exclusivity/rarity, and let’s say technical/design novelty.

My initial urge was to define supercars as anything with over 80 horsepower, so almost anyone could enjoy the status of supercar, but that was deemed too “stupid” by everyone here, save for our editor, Patrick, who praised it as “moronic.”